skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could restrict how much one stock can be shorted. This situation should have never arisen - it only happened because one firm was holding on to a ridiculous amount of risk. They gambled, someone noticed and posted about it. Either you restrict how much one can gamble with stocks, or you accept that allowing infinite profit carries infinite risk. Anything else is in effect saying "only the rich are allowed to exploit market conditions and get richer", which is obscene.
Seems like a great recipe for $gme to hit $1000 and have it excercised against you.
This has been a recognized problem for game devs for a while and recently Unity introduced DOTS to gain performance. From what I understand, doing traditional OOP means going through a lot of pointers to find information. If you put everything into arrays instead, you reduce the time spent looking up things.

https://unity.com/dots

IIRC, this is the textbook that unity pulls from if you want to learn more.
https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/
From a Reddit post from the /r/WallStreetBets mods:

> We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community instead of stepping in with the wrench we needed to fix things [0]

[0]: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us? - https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6j4r9/wher...
Whose risk are they trying to limit by not doing a full audit?
The worst, or maybe the best, part of your post is that you don't realize the American youth from the 60s literally created this generation with their greed and entitlement.
Just to provide some context, and since Canada and Siberia have a lot in common, some old memories: :)

- -24C is a normal winter temperature in Ottawa when the arctic air mass is over the city. You can still walk to work. (Ottawa is the original Shopify HQ.)

Most film cameras don't work because of metal contraction and frozen batteries. Don't touch any metal objects like fences or your fingers will freeze to the surface.

- -30C is not that common, but you need mittens and a hat. This starts causing problems, like frozen eyelashes, fairly quick frostbite.

So on a clear day with no wind, those temperatures are livable. But if there's wind, then the situation can get serious.

"On the coldest days of the year, the temperature can drop to -25 °C (-13 °F) or even below. In 2018, it dropped to -30 °C (-22 °F)."

https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/canada/ottawa
Even if 4chan host their servers, if they're not in someone's basement, they'd be in colocation, which can then be targeted, since I don't think 4chan own the full datacenter.
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I looked up this story and of course it happened in the U.S.A.

Verily, what is with the U.S.A.-man's unparalleled ability to be offended by a word, or any word phonetically similar, regardless of the context? — I am really quite glad I do not live there. It seems stressful to be able to loose one's profession so quickly over it's infamous “cancel culture”.
I never said RNA was built on two types of molecules. I said DNA was.
I'm not sure how feasible it is for an employer to have charging stations for 80% of their workforce. It would be a nice benefit though.

One nice thing about charging at your workplace though is typical 9-5 jobs are quire compatible with solar charging. So you put up an array of solar with electrical outlets in the lot. Excess power feeds back into the business.
Option sellers eat like birds and go to the bathroom like elephants.
Selective enforcement of laws is an old strategy to legally discriminate. It has been used many times to discriminate against blacks. What makes you think it can't be used to discriminate against other groups, like for example r/WallStreetBets?

Of course we can't say for sure. But at the same time we can't say for sure that specific policemen were actually racist when they attacked black people, or if they would do the same thing against white people in similar situation. You can find statistical patterns there, but similarly you can also find statistical patterns that certain groups on message boards gets banned for less than certain other groups.
man you dont know this guy or his life story. people say all kinds of stuff in books. who cares about his dating/marriage life? That is really low to bring that kind of stuff up in this context. the fact that this is the highest comment speaks to how toxic this community has become.

His "VC" fund is a social good company that prioritizes people's wellfare over profits. and who cares if its a success or failure, VC is hard.

He isn't a hero and he isn't a "Dickhead". He's just a human.

If you don't know him personally you really shouldn't be making these kinds of baseless adhominem attacks.

Reading your comment history, its nothing but black and white opinions and pointless preferences.

I am leaving this community forever. This whole place has gone down hill. There are no more hackers here. There is no more real discussion of anything. I feel bad for paul graham. This website is a disgrace.
It has happened in the past: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/squeeze-on-goldman-put-fal... and https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2012-2012-122htm
> Are there any recent (this century) examples of _successful_ criminal libel actions in the US?

This century is very young for laws that were never frequently invoked, but, yes, at least one in Kansas in 2002:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/941/criminal-li...
Capital costs are the barrier for a new generic drug maker, since the approval process is already done. Hense, Cuban starting a new one with his huge capital. But I’ll bet it will take lots of capital and well, they’ll find that there is no incentive to lower the price unless they want to gain market share. I suspect that pharma factories are quite expensive especially given the chemical reagent supply chain already being heavily owned or partnered with the incumbents.
And for everyone's complaining (and I had felt it in other states) I have to say the Florida DMV isn't that bad. I've rarely waited even in person more then 20 minutes, I have been able to do most things online for quite a number of years and their site while not great isn't horrible. Don't get me wrong, it could be better, but just I've not had the nightmare DMV experience with Florida that people equate with big states.

And to your point on URL's I don't think there is any real pattern. https://www.flhsmv.gov/ is Florida's state level DMV and counties have their own separate sites for local tag/tax offices.
The solar system of the puppeteers had a similar configuration (I don't remember if it were with just 5 planets) and they were running from the galaxy, carrying their system with them.
> On a practical level, Mark Cuban is our lead investor and his interest is very much focused on helping people and fixing system issues in healthcare.

Also he got to write his name on it
This is Censorship with capital C.

Anyone that claims that Discord is private company and can do whatever they want, read the room.

Discord did this because they were likely afraid of negative government attention, SEC, IRS, FTC, FCC etc.

If a private company censors because it thinks that's what the government regulators want them to censor, is it really private company just doing "moderation"?
Yeah, it is basically OO with most of the classes having no parents (e.g. without inheritance, but still incapsulated, and polymorphic).
Realistically speaking those particular forums weren't major news stories and flooded with new users (many of them not working for hedge funds!) who don't like what they see before.

From the point of view of someone with no stake in the outcome, the possibility some WSB regulars' strategy for cashing out their profits was based around these newbies being encouraged to buy as much GSE as possible probably isn't an argument in favour of delaying action
Plybot, an app-controlled armed 3D printer
No one is dumb enough to sell a call. Apparently we found one guy.

Opening a spread would make you a ton of money for sure, but seems unlikely one would be sold.
Have you seen how much they go for on ebay? Buying tesla battery packs is pretty big in the off-grid solar market since they're 24v and store a lot of juice.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tesla+battery
> Someone was bidding up $50 puts expiring in 3.5 weeks and buying contracts today, while the shares were in the mid-300s. That's insane implied volatility.

Because the higher you are, the closer you are to a crash. Peaks take time to build, but crashes can happen overnight (or premarket).
OP is not in school anymore. What obligation does he have to stay silent?
I like your previous point but I can't wrap my head around this one. There are 1000s of VCs and many 1000s of startups. You can't get em all
> a Discord spokesperson told Gizmodo that the channel had been banned “for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.” On both Discord and Reddit, WallStreetBets users frequently refer to themselves collectively as “retards” and “autists,” and have been known to deploy the kinds of racial slurs and deliberately offensive language that have become commonplace in 4chan-style posting forums. [0]

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/discord-bans-r-wallstreetbets-for-hate-s...
Yes, because of the drive flexibility. FreeNAS uses traditional RAID.
If you are not self-employed in the US, typically your employer provides insurance coverage, most of which is pretty decent. If you are healthy, it doesn't really matter either way; unless you are involved in a serious accident or something, your interactions with the health system are infrequent and relatively simple.

I have, among other things, asthma. I'm a 1099 contractor; I buy my own health insurance. Prior to the ACA, which people keep threatening to revoke, I could not buy insurance that covered my asthma. I tried. I shopped around a lot. The same company that provided complete coverage at a previous employer had a pre-existing condition rider on the same policy.

After the ACA, my policy now covers my pre-existing condition (Yay!), but I'm paying $750 or so per month for it. If I could not afford $750/month, my options would be considerably narrowed. (And that's before the prescriptions for my pre-existing condition.)

Yes, I go in, I get treated. But my situation demands a pretty hefty bill anyway, or potentially a very large bill. Possibly enough to make me consider not going to get treatment.
Elon Musk says Tesla Semi ready for production, limited by battery cell output
'Oumuamua: our first interstellar visitor
> i have seen something like 90% drop in sales

A good story would be "I have seen a 90% increase in sales," then it would make sense for you to borrow money from a bank to expand your business because something seems to be working well.

A bad story is "I have seen something like 90% drop in sales" and now you need a loan in order to delay bankruptcy in the hopes that sales will pick up before you can't afford your next bill or loan payment and default on a financial obligation. It is difficult to work out what the best solution is in this situation, often the answer is just to fold the business instead of taking on a personal liability as the owner of the business that could wipe out your personal savings along with a potentially already doomed business.

You see, the bank most strongly wants to lend money to people or businesses who are in the least need a loan. Put another way, the more desperate you are for money, the more reluctant anyone is to lending you that money. This is a fact of nature, no "app" can solve this problem.

I am sorry that you and 8 million other Kashmiris are struggling so badly. It is a humanitarian tragedy that doesn't get any attention due to the geopolitics of the situation, COVID, and the right wing nationalist tendencies of the current Indian administration.
Social media is about to take the same trajectory that MP3s once did. Just as we saw the evolution of Napster and IRC trading, the RIAA takedowns, the rise of BitTorrent, and the eventual emergence of streaming services, I believe we will see a similar trajectory with social media and free speech:

1. Technology enables new social phenomena that subvert the status quo.

2. Corporations move to combat these phenomena <--- we are here now

3. New technology to subvert these controls

4. Industry faces reckoning and embraces the new technology, losing some profit but avoiding a complete loss of control.
How is it that people's heads look the same size when they can be so far apart? I guess I need to learn more about all this.
By "radicalized" he means, "Will cause them to buy and hold more GameStop to continue the pain until Wall Street learns to back down."

Diamond hands all the way. They had the chance to take it on the chin like a man, but they wanted to play rough, so we'll play rough.
Which is a net benefit for a tesla owner. Less competition for charging space, plus less abuse of the chargers = better experience for a tesla owner.
There are 100 cows.

A hedge-fund believes that the milk consumption will go to zero, so they borrow the 100 cows for one month and sell them for $1 each.

Then they borrow them again, and sell them once more for 90c. Certain that they will worth $0 at the end of the month

A Redditor notices this. She knows that in a month's time, the hedge-fund will have to buy 200 cows, and there are only 100 available.

Her plan is simple. Buy all 100 cows, and at the end of the month, when the hedge fund will have to buy the cows back(twice), she will be able to dictate the price.

Hedge-fund cries foul. Doesn't like being beaten in it's own game.

Milk consumption doesn't even matter.
Amazingly, it seems actually possible that WSB can remain irrational longer than some Hedge Fonds can stay solvent.
> Find a 4-5 story parking garage and stand up on the edge. That part of your brain that kicks in and tells you to get back down to safety will also tell you to pour every cent you have in to buying a few more weeks.

This can change when there is no "back to normal" available. When your quality of life is shot and you know that tomorrow won't be better than today.

In a suicidal person who jumps off that building we consider this a tragedy because there's usually no physical reason that those feelings couldn't have passed, why their life couldn't have been normal again.

But in someone with a terminal condition and a body that's just done... and especially if they're well informed about the realities of their medical condition... yes, there can be things you care about more than throwing every cent you have into extending the pain.
>The hardest part of gambling is not coming up with the big winning bet -- it's getting whatever counterparty to pay you once you've won.

Isn't that the truth. I know crypto is hated on here but just as an anecdote, I've traded on a lot of exchanges in the last few years and I almost wince whenever I make a really great trade that 5 or 10x's because as sure as the day is long inside of an hour my account will get frozen and I'll have to submit documentation, answer a bunch of questions, or whatever else to get my account unfrozen and access to the funds. It's almost like they're saying thanks for your business and we don't mind you getting lucky but don't get too lucky.
dang, if everyone's gonna go all conspiracy theory my thoughts land on

deep state + wall street => deep street
I'm not convinced this is any less moral than e.g. George Soros famously exploiting Britain's central bank[0], HFT firms building their own microwave towers to do arbitrage and totally-not-front-running a fraction of a second faster[1], or basically anything other strategy that's lauded as brilliant when a rich man does it.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2015/07/07/forbes...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...
Who doesn't have an ID in 2020? You can't fly without one. You can't drive without one. You can't go to a bar without one. You can't book a hotel in most cases without one. It just seems like people are arguing that edge cases exist and therefore we cant require ID. There is no conspiracy against people getting an ID in 2020. Everybody very much wants you to have one.
But every programming paradigm can be (and perhaps most often is) done badly. They each just create their own set of issues when "done badly". I think it just comes from not properly understanding why you're making certain choices. Deciding to use a design pattern is going to come with a certain set of strengths and weaknesses, so ideally you'd consider your problem and choose design patterns that makes the most of the strengths and minimizes the impact of the weaknesses. But I don't think it's very common to put that much thought into programming decisions, so people will often make a design decision, and then invest their effort into fighting the constraints it imposes, while usually failing to realize the potential benefits of it. OOP can be a perfectly suitable tool to solve a problem, but if you haven't thought about the actual reason why you want to use it, then you're just going to end up creating complicated abstractions that you're not properly benefitting from. ORMs can be great tools to, but if you want to use an ORM, you have to solve your problems using the approaches implemented by the ORM. If a programmer can't/won't do that, then they've just chosen the wrong tool for their problem/the approach they wanted to take to solve it.
Would it not be somewhere in the middle though? Instead of completely saying yes or no, maybe Canada would say "We'll allow you to purchase X% of all drugs produced in the country, as we need to hold onto some, but we'd love it if you'd buy the surplus."
> Then you end up with a program where the users can never trust it to have any given feature.

That's the "glass half empty" pov.

The "half glass full" pov is that anyone can still use their favourite piece of software even if an obscure and/or useless library is not available to them.
Founder here - I'll answer!

Basically anyone who needs to do repetitive image generation.

The idea came from when I was working in Ecommerce. We would be uploading anywhere from 5 to 50 new products to our store every day. And those products would have multiple photos (different angle views). And from those different views, we would be manually creating all sorts of marketing assets e.g. ads, social media posts etc.

On top of the image, we would usually want to overlay things like our logo, or a coupon code, or the product name etc. All of this stuff was done manually and it was a PITA.

So my product is aimed at two types of customer,

1) the above type of user who needs some kind of highly-scalable and flexible banner generation API. Digital ad agencies, ecommerce stores.

2) a lower volume type of customer who wants to do the same but at a smaller scale, maybe for their own solo business. These customers use Zapier to integrate with Bannerbear, rather than using the API directly.

Hope that helps explain the use cases!
1 hour later after your post, the sub-reddit is back (again), which is unsurprising since this isn't the first time.

They're not fuckin leaving that easily and the show goes on.

> edit: After hours market shows GME is has TANKED!!!! Closed at 345 and dipped to 248. Holy, there will be class action lawsuits for sure now.

Good. Great time to buy more til the big short squeeze.

Can't stop, won't stop, next stop? GameStop.
How did they notice that the hedge fund had overextended their short position by so much? Is such information part of some required reporting?
> There are no hidden costs, no middlemen, no rebates only available to insurance companies. Everybody gets the same low price for every drug we make.

While this sounds good in practice, will it work in reality? I remember a pharma sales guy explaining that one of the ways his company got away with being more expensive than the competition was to practically give the medicine away to hospitals, so that the hospital would be more likely to prescribe it than the cheap generics, after which point the patients would just keep refilling the same meds (with the higher price then picked up by insurance)

In any case, I wish this company good luck! The US really could use more "maverick competitors" in the medical space
The model s in 2013... I never had an acceleration curve feel so smooth in any car before that. From 0 to 60 instant and smooth acceleration. From 60 to 90 instant and smooth acceleration...

Also it was not the first time I used it but maybe after 5 years and some change - vim, it’s the most consistently productive tool I’ve ever used even 20 years later, it’s faster and more productive way for me to move mountains of text then any other editor...
There wouldn't be anything wrong with that. There'd be a lot right with it, honestly - I would be trumpeting it as a clear victory of the little guy over snobby funds who don't think anyone else can understand finance.

But what's happening right now is almost certainly a pump and dump with a short squeeze as a facade. I've seen a lot of commenters who seem to be grievously misled about the actual mechanics of a short squeeze, and think that short sellers will be forced to buy all their stock at market price on Friday.
Next? Triggering automated bans has been a tactic for quite a long time.
Maybe the 'About' page [1] can clear things up:

> This site is a historical dictionary of the vocabulary of science fiction. It is edited (and coded) by Jesse Sheidlower, formerly the Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

It's looking at the history of words as they appear in Science Fiction.

[1] https://sfdictionary.com/about
Its the last part of #4 that we have to prevent.

> but avoiding a complete loss of control

We need the complete loss of control. Corporations control entirely too much of American, and really, worldwide, life as it is. We can't give this one to them. Its too important. The ability to freely communicate ideas, even in vulgar, poorly considered ways, is too important and too fundamental to humanity to be allowed to be controlled.

To quote Picard, "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"
Amazon pitched something like this at reinvent. I'm bearish because the art to good analytics is deeply understanding the data. The SQL queries are the easy part. It's knowing when to omit inactive states, or how accrual works in the system, or that field X was depreciated and isn't accurate anymore.

These systems solve none of those underlying questions, and in fact are more likely to make it worse. Because if you won't even bother to write SQL or look at your database, you are even less likely to make sure it's high quality.

(There is maybe an exemption here for queries that you don't really care of you get the real answer. I don't know what those questions would be, but that would be a good usecase.)
Bitcoin is basically a universal hedge.